Quotes by Isadora Duncan

About Isadora Duncan:

Angela Isadora Duncan was an American dancer. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe.
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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Isadora Duncan

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Isadora Duncan

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again t...

Isadora Duncan

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Isadora Duncan

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Isadora Duncan

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Isadora Duncan

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

Isadora Duncan

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isadora Duncan

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Isadora Duncan

My motto - sans limites.

Isadora Duncan

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Isadora Duncan

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Isadora Duncan

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Isadora Duncan

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Isadora Duncan

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Isadora Duncan

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Isadora Duncan

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

Isadora Duncan

Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I danc...

Isadora Duncan

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

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With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Isadora Duncan

Author Bio

  • NameIsadora Duncan
  • DescriptionAmerican dancer and choreographer
  • AliasesHet zotte geweld; The Foolish Virgin
  • BornMay 26, 1877
  • DiedSeptember 14, 1927
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionDancer; Choreographer; Autobiographer; Writer